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c/reconstitution·submitted 1 year ago by u/elodie_grimaldi

three years of insulin syringe threads, summarised so you do not have to read them

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Week 8 update. 4kg down from the start, muscle cramps basically gone since about week 60. Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I want to. Things that did not: everything I bought on the internet to help with muscle cramps. The part that surprised me is how much of this is admin.…

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u/cardio_endpoint_c82 points·1 year ago

The single most useful thing I did was write the concentration on the vial. Stopped all the confusion after that.

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u/dexa_twice_yearlybody comp39 points·1 year ago

swirl, do not shake, or you are courting oxidation

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u/hedda_adeyemi13 points·1 year ago

This is correct. 3mL versus 18mL is the common mistake.

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The arithmetic and the technique. Bacteriostatic versus sterile water, reconstitution volume as a concentration choice, converting mg/mL into insulin-syringe units, dead space, swirl-not-shake, stopper coring, and how long a reconstituted vial is actually good for. Math errors get corrected fast and politely.

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